Morteza Hosseinpour-Shalmani

Morteza Hosseinpour-Shalmani (1985-August 2017) was an Iranian IRGC colonel during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Morteza Hosseinpour-Shalmani was born in Qom, Iran in 1985, and he joined Quds Force in 2004. After officer candidate school in 2007, he was sent to Iraq to assist the Special Forces in fighting against the United States, and he was sent to Syria in 2011 when protests began. Hosseinpour-Shalmani commanded the Heydarioun Base and defended the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus from siege in 2013 and early 2014. In 2014, he also took part in the defense of Baghdad and Samarra during the Iraqi Civil War. In 2015, he was redeployed to Syria after fighting against the Islamic State several times in Iraq, and he was an intelligence chief during the capture of Aleppo in 2016. In April 2017, he was wounded in battle, and he returned to leading operations around Palmyra during late May and June. In early August 2017, he saved dozens of Iraqi Shi'ite militia and IRGC lives when the Islamic State ambushed their positions at Jamouna (near the Iraqi border), holding the IS attackers back as the others retreated. Hosseinpour-Shalmani was mortally wounded during the battle, and he died of his wounds on the way to the medical tent.